Is anyone else afraid of a "docudrama" label?

Question

I mean... apparently if you can find one person to tell any story... you can go make a movie about it and call it fact now?

I mean, if they make this one, won't they just make more... for both sides? I mean, isn't the truth difficult enough to find now without socially acceptable propaganda films? If it was factual, they wouldn't bother with calling it a "docudrama" would they?

I'm talking about movies that make "Fairenheit 9-11" look like a Republican TV ad... as long as they throw the label "docudrama" on it, they pretty much have free range it seems?

things tend to start small... and grow more extreme... I mean does anyone really want to see where this could go for both sides?

iqstrike: the only problem with that is... the smartest people all don't agree on what happened... there are very smart people on both sides that have 180 degree differences in opinion...

so... then you get into believing the "smartest person you agree with" trap... smart people are wrong too...

I mean it seems like there are the facts we know.. and then there are a variety of opinions based on those facts... but in the end... they are just opinions... one opinion is probably the truth, but it's very difficult to find that needle in a haystack...

Answer 1

why not show sandy berglar stuffing documents down his pants and in his socks??? he got away with it too....if a repub had dont that...OM GOD!!!!!!!

Answer 2

I did not know the movie was released, it's based on the 9/11 commissions report. Nothing was more unfair then "Fahrenheit 9/11" he did not even call it docudrama. I'm a Liberal an the way the Dems are behaving makes me sick, blackmailing a TV station, they don't deserve support.

Answer 3

You'll never get close to the truth if you rely on only proven facts. It's best to have all sorts of guesses to fill in the unattested gaps. The best insight comes from what the smartest people think happened.

Even strictly verifiable facts can be arranged to hint at the wrong conclusion.

Answer 4

i am more worried that it claims to be historic,
when its not,

it claims to be based on actual events it doesnt.


it is just a farce, it seems that there could any number of motives, for example the consultant was a Bush PR Man.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609070004


it seems that even if it is critical of W, that it has to make up, or invent events for the Clinton Admin in order to look unbaised when it is.

richard clarke,
just some more info, you know for fun

HEMMER: You paint a picture of a White House obsessed with Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Why do you believe that was the case?

CLARKE: Because I was there and I saw it. You know, the White House is papering over facts, such as, in the weeks immediately after 9/11, the president signed a national security directive instructing the Pentagon to prepare for the invasion of Iraq. Even though they knew at the time from me, from the FBI, from the CIA that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

HEMMER: The White House says that before they even arrived at the White House, the previous administration was obsessed with nothing. I want you to look at a picture that we saw last week from NBC News -- an Al Qaeda terrorist training camp outside of Kandahar, Afghanistan. They allege, at the time, why wasn't anything done to take al Qaeda out. This was August of 2000. ( Full story)

CLARKE: Well, a great deal was done. The administration stopped the al Qaeda attacks in the United States and around the world at the millennium period, they stopped al Qaeda in Bosnia, they stopped al Qaeda from blowing up embassies around the world, they authorized covert lethal action by the CIA against al Qaeda, they retaliated with cruise missile strikes into Afghanistan, they got sanctions against Afghanistan from the United Nations. There was a great deal the administration did, even though at the time, prior to 9/11, al Qaeda had arguably not done a great deal to the United States.

If you look at the eight years of the Clinton administration, al Qaeda was responsible for the deaths of fewer than 50 Americans over those eight years. Contrast that with Ronald Reagan, where 300 Americans were killed in Lebanon and there was no retaliation. Contrast that with the first Bush administration where 260 Americans were killed on Pan-Am 103 and there was no retaliation.

I would argue that for what had actually happened prior to 9/11, the Clinton administration was doing a great deal. In fact, so much that when the Bush people came into office they thought I was a little crazy, a little obsessed with this "little terrorist" [Osama] bin Laden. Why wasn't I focused on Iraqi-sponsored terrorism.

HEMMER: It seems like this could go for pit for pat, almost a ping-pong match. [I'd like to] show you a couple of images of the USS Cole bombing in October 2000, a few weeks before the election that saw George Bush take the White House. Prior to that, August 1998 in Tanzania and Kenya, the U.S. Embassy bombings there. If you want to go back to Beirut, Lebanon, the early 1980's, the White House is now saying go back to 1998, back to the fall of 2000.

CLARKE: Right, and what happened after 1998? There was a military retaliation against al Qaeda and the covert action program was launched, the U.N. sanctions were obtained. The administration did an all-out effort compared to what the Bush administration did. The Bush administration did virtually nothing during the first months of the administration, prior to 9/11.

President Bush himself said in a book when he gave an interview to Bob Woodward, he said "I didn't feel a sense of urgency about al Qaeda. It was not my focus, it was the focus of my team." He is saying that. President Bush said that to Bob Woodward. I'm not the first one to say this.




there are alot of question to ask........and as this is really an issue of libale not free speech, as ABC is knowingly lying.......

Answer 5

Its smack of Alex Hailey's made-up word, "faction" (some fact, some fiction) to describe being caught in a lie.
Things are either true, or not.

Answer 6

Just my opinion but,...........Docu + Drama= 1/2 Bullchit